Notorious (2009 film)
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| Directed by | George Tillman Jr. |
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| Narrated by | Jamal Woolard |
| Music by | Danny Elfman |
| Cinematography | Michael Grady |
| Edited by | Dirk Westervelt |
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| Distributed by | Fox Searchlight Pictures |
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123 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $20 million |
| Box office | $44.4 million |
Notorious is a 2009 American biographical drama film about the life and murder of Christopher Wallace, an American rapper better known by the stage name The Notorious B.I.G. The film was directed by George Tillman Jr. and starring Jamal Woolard, Angela Bassett, Derek Luke and Anthony Mackie, was released by Fox Searchlight Pictures in North America on January 16, 2009.
The film opens at a party in Los Angeles, California on March 9, 1997. Just as The Notorious B.I.G. is about to be killed in a drive-by shooting, the film flashes back to Biggie's childhood in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, where he (now played by his biological son Christopher Wallace, Jr.) lived during his adolescent years as a good student but soon becomes drawn to money and jewelry and begins selling drugs. Christopher (now played by Jamal Woolard) sells drugs at the height of the crack epidemic, hustling with his friends D-Roc (Dennis L.A. White) and Lil' Cease (Marc John Jefferies).
When his girlfriend, Jan Jackson (Julia Pace Mitchell), informs him that she is pregnant, he begins to take his drug dealing more seriously, so he can make more money to support his upcoming child. Christopher eventually takes part in a rap battle, which he wins, but his mother, Voletta Wallace (Angela Bassett), throws him out of the house after finding drugs underneath his bed and his absence from school for over three weeks.
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